Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition by Philadelphia based painter Rebecca Saylor Sack.

The choreography that takes place in Rebecca Saylor Sack’s paintings orchestrates color and form as subtle progressions punctuated by moments of surprise and incongruity. Unfolding as a series of spontaneous developments, delicate passages juxtaposed with broad brushstrokes thread together a sense of disorientation, apprehension and tension that refuse conventions of space and time. The riotous compositions in flux effuse a disjointed rhythm that is simultaneously whimsical and conflicted.

Built up through a process of addition and subtraction, with paint slathered thick then scraped away and added anew, Sack’s abstract landscapes and their destabilized dislocations insinuate a mood of impending violence or violation. Using woodland topography as a distant point of departure, Sack layers spindly trees and booming foliage atop thickets of moldering copse to reflect contradictory suggestions of growth and decay. Discernible forms become skewed as splotches of color impersonate waterfalls and tributaries, and attenuate lines mimic boughs and brambles.

Within Sack’s effervescent landscapes, brash conflicting colors fracture representation into fields of abstraction. Brilliant reds radiate against hues of vibrating purple. Electric oranges clash alongside shades of blues. These elements, combined with Sack’s rich textures, reveal a deliberate parody in her optically aggressive paintings.

Rebecca Saylor Sack lives and works in Philadelphia. She received her MFA at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2005. Sack was awarded as a Fleisher Challenge artist in 2007 and was featured in the annual Challenge exhibition. Additionally, she was recently included in a group exhibition at Fette Gallery in Los Angeles.